11-12-2023, 02:30 AM
Jaxen's blood turned to ice at the sound of that voice. Even the Ancient Power surging within him offered no comfort. When he spun around, confronting the source of such a sinister sound, his body succumbed unwillingly to paralyzing terror.
Lofty and ethereal, the being before him was a nightmarish elegance personified. Its eyes, vast slits of obsidian, dominated a hauntingly disproportionate face that seemed like skin stretched over skull. A tapestry of iridescent scales adorned its flesh, glittering ominously. Ebony locks tumbled down its back in a dark cascade, still and flat as if wind would never disturb it, contrasting starkly with the sinister leather armor it wore—an armor Jaxen instinctively recognized as human in origin.
Panic clawed at his chest, his heart pounding with refreshed desperation to escape.
Yet, in the throes of this fear, Jaxen unleashed the tempest of the Ancient Power, a force he had intended to demolish the walls themselves.
With an unnatural grace, the creature contorted its slender frame into an impossible arc, as if devoid of any skeletal structure inside. The fireball blazed past, missing the serpent-like entity by a hair's breadth. In response, it snapped its fingers effortlessly. As a curse spilled from Jaxen's lips, a suffocating darkness enveloped him, dragging him into weightless sleep.
Lofty and ethereal, the being before him was a nightmarish elegance personified. Its eyes, vast slits of obsidian, dominated a hauntingly disproportionate face that seemed like skin stretched over skull. A tapestry of iridescent scales adorned its flesh, glittering ominously. Ebony locks tumbled down its back in a dark cascade, still and flat as if wind would never disturb it, contrasting starkly with the sinister leather armor it wore—an armor Jaxen instinctively recognized as human in origin.
Panic clawed at his chest, his heart pounding with refreshed desperation to escape.
Yet, in the throes of this fear, Jaxen unleashed the tempest of the Ancient Power, a force he had intended to demolish the walls themselves.
With an unnatural grace, the creature contorted its slender frame into an impossible arc, as if devoid of any skeletal structure inside. The fireball blazed past, missing the serpent-like entity by a hair's breadth. In response, it snapped its fingers effortlessly. As a curse spilled from Jaxen's lips, a suffocating darkness enveloped him, dragging him into weightless sleep.